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Kaylin Pavlik
Data scientist and people manager dedicated to learning.
Development
{ravelRy} R package
N/A
2020
Experience
Data Science Manager (current role)
Extend
Remote
2023 - 2021
- Promoted to manager at insurtech startup offering product protection and shipping insurance within 6 months.
- Built and managed team of five data scientists responsible for providing competitive and profitable deal pricing and revenue forecasting.
- Grew team responsibilities to include financial forecasting for core products and strategic initiatives, customer experience analytics, and product analytics.
- Delivered analytic insights to SVP and C-suite levels.
Lead Data Scientist
Extend
Remote
2021
- Launched partner pricing team, creating win- and margin-minded go-to-market pricing and opportunity analysis.
- Developed revenue forecasting model for evaluating sales opportunities. Worked cross-functionally to assess program economics, create attractive commercial offers, and win highly competitive deals.
Principal Data Scientist, Commercial Insights
Medtronic
Minneapolis, MN
2021 - 2020
- Served as first DS hire on a team charged with developing a full view of the Medtronic customer across four distinct companies and 30 operating units.
- Delivered an end-to-end model to predict accounts receivable customer credit risk.
- Developed a comparative method for assessing customer pricing across diverse business groups, and put it into action to identify opportunities where pricing was inconsistent due to siloed pricing practices.
- Provided ad hoc analysis and impact assessment for various strategy initiatives.
Data Scientist
Brandless
Minneapolis, MN
2020 - 2019
- Maintained data infrastructure and Airflow pipelines, creating complex queries and workflows to ingest, transform and store data at ecommerce startup Brandless.
- Designed workflow to regularly collect, modify and store news data for competitive analysis.
- Developed forecasting tool in Shiny to estimate unit sales and inform purchasing plan and project revenue on demand.
- Contributed to productionalized algorithms and machine learning models (user-based recommendations, NLP-driven customer service ticket labeler).
Data Analyst
Concordia College
Moorhead, MN
2019 - 2017
Project Manager/Analyst
Concordia College
Moorhead, MN
2017 - 2013
Marketing Manager
Drayton Enterprises
Fargo, ND
2013 - 2012
Education
M.S., Applied Statistics
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND
2017
- Collaborated with admissions team to fit a logistic regression model on demographic, geodemographic and behavioral applicant data to assist in allocation of recruitment resources by assigning probability of enrollment to admitted students.
B.A., Psychology
Boston College
Boston, MA
2012